Nature · In English · 1900
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail around the world alone: storms, pirates and a small boat he rebuilt by hand.
22 chapters · about 5 h of reading
Opening the book
How the book begins
Clearing for home—In the calm belt—A sea covered with sargasso—The jibstay parts in a gale—Welcomed by a tornado off Fire Island—A change of plan—Arrival at Newport—End of a cruise of over forty-six thousand miles—The Spray again at Fairhaven.
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About this edition
Public domain: the author died in 1909, more than seventy years ago, and the book was first published in 1900. It is free to read, copy and share in the EU, Russia and the United States.
We removed the source's wrapper, rejoined the lines and split the book into chapters. The words are the author's.